Sakamoto desu ga? (The Ladies Call Me Sakamoto)

Read the first chapter and you’ll get the gist. The whole manga is basically one big joke.

Top keks, right?

While I love Sakamoto, the series has been shipped off to the worst studio in the anime industry, Studio Deen, only compounding the inherent difficulties of adapting a panel-based comedy. And at this point, I’m struggling to determine if it’s even worth it to give the show a shot. Absurdity can only scale so far.

Well, okay, this scene would scale pretty well.

As an anime, I’ve got pretty low expectations, so I’m just gonna recommend everyone read the manga instead. Looking forward to be proven wrong, but not expecting it — I’ve been let down too many times in the past. ;_;

Sansha Sanyou (Three Leaves, Three Colors)

I spent the entire PV wishing I had an anime ax to bury in each of those ditz-infected larynxes. Part of that’s because of my guro fetish, but the other part’s because holy christ how the fuck could you expect anyone to tolerate that shit?

I’m out.

Shounen Maid (Hayate, But Significantly Worse)

tl;dr: A clean freak goes to live with his lazy, rich boyfriend brother. In order to earn his keep, he decides to be a live-in butler who — record scratch — has to wear a maid uniform. I wish there was more to say, but that is the entire premise of every goddamn plague-ridden page in the manga.

tanakakunwaitsumokedaruge (Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge)

Low-energy defines every aspect of this series, which somehow works to its advantage.

Can’t really say this is a show you can actively enjoy, but I will passively tolerate the fuck out of it.

Nuwa Chengchang Riji

tl;dr: I have no fucking idea what China is thinking.

Manga: N/A

Light Novel: N/A

Animation Production: The Stupendous Chinese Worker Peoples’ Party of Great Amazing National China

Looks like some glorious party leader found a random kids’ manga, figured “yeah, if we copy this everyone will know how sugoi China is”, and then followed it up with the cheapest animators and voice actors they could find. I won’t even watch this ironically, that’s how bad that fucking PV looked.

China, maybe people would like you better if you weren’t such a stick-in-the-mud tryhard. It’s okay to live every once in a while, y’know?

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In the last of your season previews you should list all the animes worth watching so we don’t have to go though all the articles. We’re lazy too you know.

I really like the first ep of Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. It kept me entertained and I’m looking forward to the next ep, so that’s more then most shows achieve.
Other thoughts on the ep: The town deserved their fate though, as I asked the question 2 seconds after seeing it, “what if there’s a runaway train?” It’s hard to feel bad for people too stupid to live.
The kabane don’t seem to be totally mindless, so I am interested in learning more about what rules they follow.
The manner the character avoided infection at the end of the episode seemed rather bullshit, but it looks to make a rather interesting plot point.

Sakamoto desu ga? The jokes just don’t come quick enough here in the anime to keep me interested. They got the tone right, but the pacing just isn’t there. Go read the manga, then if you’re board watch the anime.

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress look to be the 2 best shows, or at least the 2 shows I’m most interested in. Macross “she want the D” has the elements, but did not put them together right, at least in the first ep anyway.

DEEN is getting some slack cut from me for now considering they did a good job on Konosuba (art was a bit wonky but w/e) and they also greenlit it for a second season. They also apprentely did a good job on Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu and are giving it a second season also? Though I have not watched that yet but I will get around to it at some point.